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Annotated typescripts, prints, cuttings, notes and manuscripts of speeches by LSA on subjects including: imperial unity, particularly on Canada, the possibility of an Imperial council and separating the Colonial Office from an Imperial Office, and including a speech written for 1st Lord Roberts; taxation (in LSA's maiden speech in the House of Commons); temperance; links between defence policy and strategy; the need for a national policy for dealing with syphilis; blocking motions.

Scope and Contents Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: defence; the Labour Government's National Economic Plan (1965); price increases under Labour; strikes; National Savings; providing incentives in industrial and commercial life; Labour transport policy on roads, rail and London commuter rail services; inflation; the British view of the United States; immigration; taxation; Labour incomes and prices policy; the Budget (1965); the balance of trade; Labour public spending; renewing...

Scope and Contents Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: the balance of payments and international exchange rates; Northern Ireland, particularly the Constitutional Convention, representation of Ulster in the British Parliament, the General Election in Northern Ireland, including JEP's election speech, agriculture and the 1973 constitution; relations between the Church and the monarchy; political responsibility, relating to the Conservative Party's abandonment of its principles; housing;...

Scope and Contents Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: the Anglo-Irish Agreement, the betrayal of Ulster by the British Government, the influence of the United States, and representation in Parliament; New Commonwealth immigrants; the economic situation, including the balance of payments; defence policy, including the nuclear deterrent; trade with Japan; interference in other countries, particularly Iran and Iraq; British membership of the European Community; A E Housman; the Gospels; the...

Scope and Contents Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: Joseph Chamberlain and Ireland; the defence of Western Europe; the legacy of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury; negotiations on the future of Ulster; relations between Iran and the United States; the nation of Wales; the Church and state, women priests and parish churches; the failure of the Labour Opposition; British defence policy; teaching Latin and Greek; local government; English parliamentary tradition; management of the...

Scope and Contents Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: defence policy, including maintaining peace in Europe and arms production; relations between Britain and Ireland, including the Anglo-Irish Agreement, the IRA and past policy on Northern Ireland; Britain and the European Economic Community, particularly the Common Agricultural Policy, changing Conservative policy on Europe, defence, economic affairs, East-West relations and the European Court of Human Rights; the Gospels; Hong Kong's...

Scope and Contents Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: Britain's place in Europe, including the new balance of power, events in Eastern Europe, defence, Parliamentary independence, free trade and the Common Agricultural Policy; the Gospels; the future of Northern Ireland, including the results of British relations with the United States and representation for Ulster in Parliament; the principle of jurisdiction; the economy, including the balance of payments, inflation and the European...

Scope and Contents Letters of sympathy, medical bills etc during ELS’s recuperation after the removal of his prostate gland, followed by congestion of the lungs and a thrombosis in the leg. Correspondents include: Sir George Earle (3); Sir John Howard; Sir Winston Churchill (2); 1st Lord Killearn [earlier Miles Lampson] (2); 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken]; Duncan Duncan-Sandys; Edmund de Rothschild; Lord Bossom; 1st Lord Milverton [earlier Arthur Richards]; 1st Lord Ismay; Julian Amery; Sir Colin...

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Papers mainly comprising letters to her brother and sisters, with a draft memoir, speeches and other correspondence.

Scope and Contents The sections of Lord Stewart's papers which are of greatest interest are those dealing with his public life particularly his periods as First Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1965-66). The public side of Lord Stewart's life is complemented by the personal reflections contained in the diaries and in his personal correspondence. The papers also contain a large collection of photographs and many photograph albums in addition to press cuttings, biographical information,...

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Subjects include Churchill's depression, paintings, drinking, food, smoking, exercise, gambling and sleep.

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Letter from Cortland Macmahon to WSC, sending alkagen lozenges for his indigestion.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: "Cys" [Lord Asquith of Bishopstone], on subjects including how well Churchill was looking and the success of his speeches since his stroke, Cys's approval of Hartley Shawcross, and Churchill becoming a Knight of the Garter (3); Lady Violet Bonham Carter [earlier Violet Asquith, later Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury] on Churchill's health, the difficulty he would have in stepping back from public life and her admiration for Clementine's courage; 1st Lord Montgomery of...

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Letters to Clementine from 1st Lord Montgomery of Alamein on Churchill's health [after an attack of fever], March 1958 and their golden wedding anniversary.

Scope and Contents Briefings and arrangements for visits and meetings, including: meeting with midwives, Royal College of Midwives Trust, to mark the first International Day of the Midwife, including correspondence with Ruth Ashton, General Secretary of the Trust; a dinner at the Italian embassy; meeting with Felipe Gonzalez, Prime Minister of Spain, including a briefing on the current state of the European Intergovernmental conferences on economic and political union; visits to Bonn, Germany (May and...

Scope and Contents Podcasts produced by Women's Parliamentary Radio , consisting mainly of interviews with British MPs, and publications based on those interviwes. The material focuses mainly on the work experiences of women MPs, along with some broader interviews regarding issues affecting women.Publications and associated podcasts covered are the 'When There's a Woman in the Room' series, parts 2-4...

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Correspondence with Alistair Whyte, Department of Anatomy, University of Aberdeen, on the skin graft which WSC gave from his arm to a wounded soldier after the Battle of Omdurman.